Elmo US-93 MP 77.5MTELM
Beside a road/2.3 mi away/2,910 ft/20 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Big Arm Unit - Flathead Lake State Park is 41° and mostly clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the northeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 35° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 69°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 10 hours 54 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Big Arm Unit - Flathead Lake State Park, Montana.
Air quality
Index 49, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Flathead Valley (MT), 39 miles off.
Yesterday measured 40, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Big Arm Unit - Flathead Lake State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Elmo US-93 MP 77.5MTELM
Beside a road/2.3 mi away/2,910 ft/20 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Jette RAWSJETM8
A remote fire weather station/4.4 mi away/3,635 ft/745 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW6663EW6663
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.6 mi away/2,929 ft/39 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Ronanairport7S0
At an airfield/19.1 mi away/3,079 ft/189 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Polson Kerr DamKERM8
At a dam/9.4 mi away/2,733 ft/157 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Polson 1.0 SSEMT-LK-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.7 mi away/3,370 ft/480 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Polson Kerr Dam (KERM8), 9.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 18:00. measured daily
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.